Faculty & Programs

An interdisciplinary team led by Ethan Yang, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have been awarded a $1 million, three-year grant from the Department of Energy to create a climate resilience center. The project will focus on improving localized climate models, aiming to provide communities with better tools to predict and mitigate the impacts of climate change. This initiative intersects with Lehigh’s Catastrophe Modeling Center.

Arindam Banerjee, Lehigh's Paul B. Reinhold Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and chair of the MEM department, has been honored as an Associate Editor of the Year (2023) by the Journal of Fluids Engineering, an ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) publication.  

MechE Associate Professor Natasha Vermaak has completed her leadership term as the Chair of the Computational Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) technical committee (2022-2024) within The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). TMS is a professional society that connects over 10,000 minerals, metals, and materials scientists and engineers on six continents. 

From January – December 2023, MechE Prof. Natasha Vermaak recently spent her sabbatical at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay, hosted by the Laboratory of Mechanics Paris-Saclay (LMPS), a premiere solid mechanics research unit in France and globally.

The Lehigh Microscopy School (LMS) welcomed 67 participants hailing from the United States, Canada, Japan, and Brazil for a week of microscopy education.

The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science welcomes the following individuals to our distinguished faculty:

Lehigh University researchers, led by Prof. Arindam Banerjee, are using mayonnaise to study and address the stability challenges of nuclear fusion by examining the phases of Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Their innovative approach aims to inform the design of more stable fusion capsules, contributing to the global effort to harness clean fusion energy. Their most recent paper, published in Physical Review E, explores the critical transitions between elastic and plastic phases in these conditions.

IEX 2024—the international ion exchange sustainability conference organized by the Separation Science and Technology Group of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)—took place July 9-12, 2024, at Cambridge University in England. This prestigious event (last held virtually in 2022) gathers experts and innovators from around the globe to discuss advancements in ion exchange technologies.

Innovative project is led by geotechnical engineering professor Muhannad Suleiman, with I-CPIE collaborators